American Dessert
PUMPKIN MILKSHAKE
3 graham crackers*
1¼ cups milk
3½ teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1 cup pumpkin puree
3 cups vanilla ice cream
whipped cream (optional, or is it?)
* = I’ve seen the amounts called different things. Here, a graham cracker is the entire individual rectangle that you pull out of the graham-cracker bag.
SPECIAL UTENSIL
electric blender
Serves 4. Takes 15 minutes.
PREPARATION
Add all ingredients to electric blender. Blend using milkshake, or middle, setting until well blended. Top to your heart’s content with whipped cream.
TIDBITS
1) Gasoline is incredibly popular. Every single day, millions and millions pull to the gas pump to fill up their cars.
2) Pumpkin Milkshakes rival gasoline in popularity. In fact, there remains a colossal, untapped thirst across the width and breadth of this great land this soothing beverage.
3) Indeed, Pumpkin Heaven(tm) has been monitory this pent up demand, merely waiting for sufficient capital to grow.
4) And for many years now, Tiny Rhombus Oil(tm) has waited impatiently to expand, to take its place along the big boys, aka the Boys of Gas. So it was inevitable that the two companies would merge.
5) As Tiny Rhombus Oil’s CEO, Carl La Fong said, “We’re proud to announce the inclusion of Pumpkin Heaven’s pumpkin milkshake to our gas pumps. Yes, we’re now able to service your motoring and dessert beverage needs. And oh, don’t worry, gas and pumpkin milkshake will have their own separate nozzles. Thank you.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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